Athena System Enhancements Empower Wireless Design Flexibility
New Upgrades Debut at LEDucation 2025
Coopersburg, PA, March 17, 2025 - Today, Lutron Electronics, a global leader in architectural lighting, window treatment, and control solutions, introduces the latest innovations to its award-winning Athena commercial control system. With smaller-than-ever architectural downlights, new wireless keypad styles, and a more powerful dashboard, Athena takes lighting performance and system reliability to the next level. These enhancements expand design options and streamline installation while reducing material waste and energy consumption, building on the system’s demonstrated success in Class A/AA commercial office spaces like the new BlackRock headquarters in New York City, as well as museums, restaurants, and hospitality spaces around the world.
The new system features include:
- Ketra and Rania D2 Downlights: The recently launched D2 architectural downlights deliver Ketra’s unmatched full-spectrum and Rania’s dynamic white light in a refined, two-inch-aperture form factor with industry-leading precision. Because D2 downlights are wirelessly controlled, they take up less closet space, simplify maintenance, and require no control wiring—reducing the cost and impact of raw materials.
- Sunnata Keypad: The Sunnata family adds a sleek, retrofit-ready wireless keypad to the Athena control portfolio. Now, designers have even more flexibility to express their style and specify control preferences with the Sunnata dimmer, switch, fan control, keypad, and hybrid keypad available in Athena. The Sunnata hybrid keypad also enables distributed lighting control by combining the functions of a dimmer and keypad into one, eliminating the need for dimming panels and further accelerating installation while removing clutter from the electrical closet.
- Enhanced Lutron Dashboard Control: The updated dashboard provides facility managers with a streamlined, single-pane-of-glass interface for system control, offering flexibility to manage lighting, shades, and building data and analytics from a single, user-friendly platform.
“Athena is not just about lighting—it’s about empowering designers to create spaces that people want to be in,” says Eric Lind, Vice President of Global Specification at Lutron. “Adaptability is the name of the game in today’s commercial buildings, and we’re committed to continue to make Athena the most versatile and capable system on the market.”
These updates, along with the Athena wireless node—a coin-sized, integrated fixture control—further enhance Athena’s core capabilities while delivering greater wireless flexibility and continuously evolving performance. Lutron’s Natural Show capability automatically syncs interior lighting with the sun throughout the day while still allowing for seamless manual override and resync to simplify scene setting and optimize daylight management.
Schedule a personalized tour to experience the enhanced Athena system at Lutron’s New York City Experience Center at experience.lutron.com
For more information on Lutron’s Athena system, visit www.lutron.com/athena.
About Lutron Electronics (www.lutron.com)
Founded in 1961, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. is headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. From dimmers for the home to lighting management systems for entire buildings, the company offers more than 15,000 energy-saving products sold in more than 100 countries. In the US alone, Lutron products save an estimated 10 billion kWh of electricity or approximately $1 billion in annual utility costs. The company’s early inventions— including the first solid-state electronic dimmer invented by Lutron’s founder, Joel Spira—are at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.